Building a Speech Interface to a Medical Diagnostic System

Authors:
Smadar Shiffman;Alice W. Wu;Alex D. Poon;Christopher D. Lane;Blackford Middleton;Randolph A. Miller;Fred E. Masarie, Jr.;Gregory F. Cooper;Edward H. Shortliffe;Lawrence M. Fagan
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Year:
1991

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System design and evaluation

Medical informatics: computer applications in health care
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Abstract

A description is given of the design of an interface for QMR-DT, an evolving decision-theoretic version of Quick Medical Reference, which performs diagnostic reasoning about diseases in internal medicine. QMR-DT encompasses the part of QMR's functionality that provides differential diagnoses for a set of patient characteristics, but it uses a different algorithm to compute diagnoses. The work described includes two programs that integrate off-the-shelf speech technology with programs that manipulate medical terminology. The term identifier program uses an isolated-word, speaker-dependent speech product to provide an interface for entering medical findings into QMR-DT. Frame browser is an auxiliary program used by the developers of term identifier to examine frame structures. Frame browser was also used to experiment with a continuous-speech system.